I heard that Leopard is a hog and Snow Leopard is way more efficient.I don't have any direct experience though having leapfrogged over leopard.

That's nonsense. Who told you that load of hogwash?

SL is more efficient if the computer you have just purchased was purchased with SL installed. FWIW, Macs won't run an OS that is older than the one supplied and pre-installed. I've found SL a lot more buggy than Leopard too.

The trick is to use the SSDs for the important tasks that require speed, and use the traditional spinning platters for the stuff that doesn´t require fast access.

I'm not sure how to do that without needing a large drive. For me, what needs speed is access to audio files in projects, and those are the space-eaters. The OS and programs take up a relatively very small amount of disk space.

Obviously you are stuck if you don´t have a tower cab with room for at least 4 drives. _________________A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"

It all depends on the mix of hardware, DAW applications and plugins. It is always wise to be aware that one might have to freeze the config at some point in order to not downgrade into Sam Peckinpah slow motion hell.

This is a pretty old topic, but since I've bought a Mac (personal use) and
we've started looking at SSDs where I work...

We do have a Mac Air with 64GB SSD. From hybrid sleep to desktop is about 3 seconds. From cold power off to desktop is still a pretty long time.
There is 11-13 seconds of no activity on the SATA bus, before the host issues the first command. I guess it takes that long to do all the internal hardware testing and initialization.

I don't think OSX supports trim yet, and haven't seen any posts about when it will.

I have seen several reports stating SSDs are less reliable than HDDs, so for my own personal use, I'll wait a few years until the prices drop and reliability goes up._________________Free Tibet. Release the Panchen Lama from prison. Let the Dalai Lama return to his home.

I´ve installed SSDs in several Mac Pros recently. It works fine and yes.. there were several WTF moments as it seems OS X 10.6x does have some hidden TRIM tricks._________________A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"

I´ve installed SSDs in several Mac Pros recently. It works fine and yes.. there were several WTF moments as it seems OS X 10.6x does have some hidden TRIM tricks.

It's not easy to tell from the user point of view if the os is issuing the trim command or not. It could be that the ssd doesn't even support it.

Without being able to see how the device reports its capabilities to the os through the ATA/SATA Identify Device command you would need a SATA bus analyzer to capture the command sequence and see if trim is even being issued.

OSX may even have a utility for dumping low level info from the device driver, but being new to OSX I couldn't find anything like this._________________Free Tibet. Release the Panchen Lama from prison. Let the Dalai Lama return to his home.

Whatever it is in OS X 10.6.6 that makes the SSD experience fairly decent, there is still not a proper TRIM as TRIM is now officially included in the Lion beta. And sure, Trim is a pretty new addition to SSDs, and there are many SSD devices that won´t support it._________________A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"

It seems that OS X isn´t going for the cloud experience ( whatever that is ) but is instead aiming for actual sensible features. That being said, you can kinda do this already but in a slightly more messy way._________________A Charity Pantomime in aid of Paranoid Schizophrenics descended into chaos yesterday when someone shouted, "He's behind you!"

Will you be able to do this the classic X way, with individual windows being redirected to external graphics displays, or do you need to have a whole desktop screen Windows-style?

I remember being used to working with Sparc stations and moving to Windows with remote desktops - I've always preferred opening individual windows. But then again, no one I know likes to have a big pile of unmaximized windows on top of each other like I do.

I worked out why I could never get svn working with Beanstalk, that's because Beanstalk only allows for one user on the account. Because you set it up, it certainly wasn't going to let another in. Yeah, spin on that one Capon!

I worked out why I could never get svn working with Beanstalk, that's because Beanstalk only allows for one user on the account. Because you set it up, it certainly wasn't going to let another in. Yeah, spin on that one Capon!

Maybe it's YOU who should be reading "OAP computing for Dummies"!?!

We did have multiple users in beanstalk, thats how you managed to add 253 new files into the repository!

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